Publish refreshed Digital Inclusion Strategy with detailed focus on older people’s digital needs.
The Government must bring forward a refreshed Digital Inclusion Strategy. The Strategy should have a detailed focus on the needs of digitally excluded older people, including a plan for funding locally delivered digital skills provision and promoting best practice in the public and private sectors in maintaining offline alternatives to …
Government response. The government states it has already published a Digital Inclusion Action Plan, which addresses the recommendation by focusing on older people, funding local initiatives through an Innovation Fund, promoting best practice, and improving connectivity via Project Gigabit.
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